Diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard

Men's 3 metre springboard
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Medalists
 Pete Desjardins  United States
 Michael Galitzen  United States
 Farid Simaika  Egypt
Diving at the
1928 Summer Olympics
3 m springboard   men   women
10 m platform   men   women

The men's 3 metre springboard, also reported as fancy diving, was one of four diving events on the diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was actually held from both 3 metre and 1 metre boards. Divers performed five compulsory dives from the 3 metre board – running plain header forward, standing backward header, running isander (half gainer), backward spring and forward dive, running header forward with half screw – and six dives of the competitor's choice (different from the compulsory), from either board, for a total of eleven dives. The competition was held from Monday August 6, 1928 to Wednesday August 8, 1928.

A point-for-place system was used (except, for reasons unexplained, in determining the silver and bronze medalists). For each dive, the divers were ranked according to their dive score and awarded points based on their rank for that dive (the best dive earned 1 point, the next-best 2 points, and so on).

Twenty-three divers from fifteen nations competed.

Results

First round

The three divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round advanced to the final.

Group 1

Place Diver Points Score
1  Pete Desjardins (USA) 5 182.10
2  Heinz Plumanns (GER) 12 148
3  Alfred Phillips (CAN) 17 134.10
4  Luciano Cozzi (ITA) 20 129.14
5  Edmund Lindmark (SWE) 22 123.70
6  Henk Lotgering (NED) 29 112.98
7  Armand Billard (FRA) 37 101.44
8  Josef Nasvadba (TCH) 38 102.48

Group 2

Place Diver Points Score
1  Michael Galitzen (USA) 5 178.94
2  Farid Simaika (EGY) 10 164.96
3  Ewald Riebschläger (GER) 15 151.20
4  Julius Balasz (TCH) 20 139.24
5  Curt Sjöberg (SWE) 27 129.26
6  Josef Staudinger (AUT) 28 128.54
7  Arthur Bischoff (SUI) 35 100.14
8  Harry Morris (AUS) 40 94.96

Group 3

Place Diver Points Score
1  Harold Smith (USA) 5 169.70
2  Arthur Mund (GER) 11 148.48
3  Fumo Takashina (JPN) 14 139.82
4  Maurice Lepage (FRA) 21 132.52
5  Louis Gompers (NED) 24 123.24
6  Federico Mariscal (MEX) 31 88.84
7  S. C. Mercer (GBR) 34 81.84

Final

The points and scores are given as in the official report showing Galitzen second with 14 and Simaika third with 13.

Place Diver Points Score
1st, gold medalist(s)  Pete Desjardins (USA) 5 185.04
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Michael Galitzen (USA) 14 174.06
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Farid Simaika (EGY) 13 172.46
4  Harold Smith (USA) 18 168.96
5  Arthur Mund (GER) 29.5 154.72
6  Ewald Riebschläger (GER) 31 153.86
7  Alfred Phillips (CAN) 32.5 149.48
8  Heinz Plumanns (GER) 37 150.18
9  Fumo Takashina (JPN) 45 139.78

References

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